Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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